Posted on 04/15/2006 8:57:35 AM PDT by libstripper
His case for nuclear power is based on bogus science. Better to not invite him aboard.
I know this guy. He's been a rational spokesman for the forest products industry for 15 years. He's not a recent convert.
Sorry,but I thnk your anger should be directed at the spineless weinies that buckled like a belt when Greenpeace made demands.
He's still a nut. There is no catastrophic climate change caused by mankind. Heck, the latest is that global warming stopped in 1998.
chae wrote: "Sorry,but I thnk your anger should be directed at the spineless weinies that buckled like a belt when Greenpeace made demands."
I have plenty of anger to go around on this issue. These environmental nutjobs impede just about any pragmatic approach to producing our own energy, but they constantly whine about our dependence on foreign oil. They aren't helping solve the problem--they ARE the problem!
You all should give this guy a little break, he pulled out from the group he founded ages ago when they went beyond "save the whales". His conversion isn't new at all
Is he the same guy who refuted the rainforest is disappearing crowd?
Looks like it's time to spell out some basic nuclear engineering again.
97% of what comes out of a reactor as spent fuel is the same refined uranium that went in. The remaining 3% is plutonium, some short-lived transuranics, and the fission products. The uranium and the plutonium are perfectly good reactor fuels, and should be recycled back into a reactor.
The fission products are the nasty stuff. They're highly radioactive. However, that als means relatively short-lived. In reality, in less than 700 years the fission products decay to a lower level of radioactivity than the original uranium ore. The sensible thing to do is separate out the fission products and bury them. They don't have to be protected for geologic times. The Pyramids of Egypt have stood, without maintenance, for about three times as long as it would be necessary to sequester the fission products. Surely we can build something that will do the job at least as well as the Pyramids
Most of the so-called problems of nuclear power are self-inflicted. A big share of the self-infliction comes from misinformation, and indeed deliberate disinformation, about disposal of nuclear waste.
I was going to point this out too, before seeing you had already done so. Radioactivity and half-life are generally inversely proportional.
He only partially understood the foals. Global warming is a device to shut down technology and return the world to a sort of feudal state with the Elite owning everything including the bulk of the remaining population who will have just enough to survive as serfs who produce the wealth the elite command.
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